Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

The quantum world has a reputation for being elusive, but physicists are now starting to watch it unfold in real time. For ...

Scientists found the first natural proof that underwater volcanoes make ammonia without biology, a reaction that may have ...

How the world of the smallest particles is structured, what is known about fundamental forces, and what particles have to do ...

Big Blue has been working on the next-gen technology for decades, and now has major breakthroughs in its sights. We get a ...

This year, the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT) was once again embroiled in controversy over question errors and ...

While daydreaming on a bus, and then while dozing by the fireside, Auguste Kekulé realized that carbon atoms can combine into complex structures.

Researchers have discovered how to design and place single-photon sources at the atomic scale inside ultrathin 2D materials, ...

Neutrinos are one of the most mysterious particles in the universe, often called "ghost particles" because they rarely ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

Ultrastructure expansion microscopy of murine male germ cells reveals the fine molecular structures of centrioles (shown in ...